pine snake
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Noun (1)
- any of several bull snakes of eastern and southeastern United States found chiefly in pine woods; now threatenedType of bull snake, bull-snake
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Pine snake
Zoology, a large harmless North American snake (Pituophis melanoleucus). It is whitish, covered with brown blotches having black margins. Called also bull snake. The Western pine snake (Pituophis Sayi) is chestnut-brown, mottled with black and orange.
From the entry Pine.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54